Dawn of Darkness tells the hidden story behind the greatest scandal of the Second World War: how American soldiers miraculously overcame not only the Bataan Death March but medical experimentation in Manchuria under the Japanese biological weapons program. Looming in the background is Ishii Shiro, who conducted germ tests on U.S. POWs, and after the war, struck a secret deal with General MacArthur, trading his grisly research in exchange for immunity from war crimes prosecution. More than fifty years later, the public is just beginning to comprehend the full scope of this dim chapter in our history. Dawn of Darkness, an epic rendering of these events, plumbs the uneasy relationship between the United States and its veterans of war, exploring the hidden costs - and unseemly spoils - of "victory."